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​​online & printed magazines  & listings, radio, publishers

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 "Updates webpage"  (on our folk-news site) + in our emailed "Folklife Newsletter".


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  • FOR YOUR  FREE LISTINGS: ​ MEDIA         CLICK TO OPEN - OR CLOSE !
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EMAIL YOUR DETAILS.  - we'll copy to a form & send you that as a draft to approve/amend, so may take a week or two 

Once published, then for small changes, you can just email changes to sam@folklife.uk
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    For "Category: choose one" choose one of these:
             • M.1 Printed Folk Magazines & Listings ​
             • M.2 Online Folk Magazines & Listings: UK-wide  
             • M.3 Online Folk Magazines & Listings: Cymru•Wales  
             • M.4 Online Folk Magazines & Listings: England
             • M.5 Online Folk Magazines & Listings: Alba•Scotland
             • M.6 Online Folk Magazines & Listings: International
             • M.7 Folk Radio
             • M.8 Publishers (Music & Print)

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​LISTINGS, and NEWS, from  🄵  Folklife members.  Ø Folklife Associate members UK.   ØØ International non-UK Updates-signups.   
                                                           --- Members' news is in area news webpages on www.folklife.uk        Thanks for your support!      All welcome!
LISTINGS (not news)   from  ‡   UK Updates sign-ups other than above.             🄹  Folklife Traditions Journal  subscriber.    
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​MEDIA   M.1    ---  PRINTED FOLK MAGAZINES & LISTINGS
MEDIA   M.2-.6  --  ONLINE FOLK MAGAZINES & LISTINGS
MEDIA   M.7    ---  FOLK RADIO
MEDIA   M.8   ---   PUBLISHERS (MUSIC & PRINT)     see also FOLKLIFE STUDIES (on our Folklife Traditions site)

MEDIA   M.1    PRINTED FOLK MAGAZINES & LISTINGS

                     for JOURNALS see FOLKLIFE STUDIES webpage (on our Folklife Traditions site)

🄵 ​Cornwall     FOLK IN CORNWALL    www.folkincornwall.co.uk    John Tremaine    01208 872124
    ⇒     Editor: John Tremaine, 7 The Moors, Lostwithiel, PL22 0BX.        mail<at>folkincornwall.co.uk
      Facebook: www.facebook.com/folkincornwallmagazine 
    ⊕    Folk in Cornwall supports the thriving folk scene in Cornwall, providing information through publishing the printed magazine every three months,  and its website, listing song, music and dance clubs, groups, sessions, with an event diary and details of regular events. [Feb 2018, new member]

🄵 ​Devon    WHAT’S AFOOT  https://devonfolk.org.uk  Anne Gill    01803 290427
⇒ Anne Gill, Maleth, 11 Cleveland Road, Torquay, TQ2 5BD.  adverts<at>devonfolk.org.uk
⊕ Diary, contacts, articles, reviews. 3 per year: 1 Apr (deadlines 1 Feb), 1 Aug (deadline 1 Jun), 1 Dec (deadline 1 Oct).   Posted UK: £5.00 for 3 issues, cheques: Devon Folk.

🄵 ​England  EDS (English Dance & Song)  www.efdss.org/efdss-join-us/english-dance-and-song     EFDSS    020 7485 2206
⇒ To join EFDSS [English Folk Dance & Song Society] and receive EDS and other benefits: www.efdss.org/efdss-join-us
⇒ ​Editorial: EDS Editor, Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London, NW1 7AY.  eds.editor<at>efdss.org 
⊕    An international publication, going out to the almost 4,000 members of the Society. It’s the world’s longest-running folk magazine, first published in 1936, and balances professional folk with grassroots folk, both traditional and contemporary. [EFDSS, now a FL member, October 2017]

🄵  London & home counties FOLK LONDON  https://folklondon.co.uk/
⇒  www.instagram.com/folklondonmag/; https://twitter.com/FolkLondonMag
⊕ Bi-monthly listings magazine covering folk music, dance and song events in London & home counties [updated 14/3/2023]

​🄵 ​UK & Ireland LIVING TRADITION    www.livingtradition.co.uk    Office   01563 571220
    ⇒    The Living Tradition, PO Box 1026, Kilmarnock KA2 0LG.  admin<at>livingtradition.co.uk,   www.facebook.com/thelivingtraditionmagazine
    ⊕        A full colour, glossy, folk and traditional music magazine highlighting the rich heritage of traditional music in the UK, Ireland and beyond.  TLT has a worldwide circulation, and is an independent and authoritative voice in the folk world.  Subscriptions available.   [Feb 2018, new member]

And we are  . . . Wales, England West Country & West Midlands   FW, the Folklife West print magazine  on this site  Sam Simmons  01684 561378
⊕   Each issue has Members' news pages plus Festival & Workshop Diaries (also copied online to www.folklife.uk);  
      and Folklife Traditions pages, articles & news  ​
www.folklife-traditions.uk

​MEDIA   M.2-.6 are ONLINE FOLK MAGAZINES & LISTINGS

​   • M.2: UK-wide     • M.3  Cymru•Wales     • M.4: England  • M.5: Alba•Scotland  • M.6: International
MEDIA   M.2    ONLINE FOLK MAGAZINES & LISTINGS --- UK-wide

UK  
This website is the 
🄵 FOLKLIFE MEMBERS' ONLINE DIRECTORY, including these  listings from Folklife.     Sam Simmons    01684 561378
Folklife produce  FOLKLIFE WEST print magazine (details: ⇒  M.2 below) available online: 
     FW news pages are on www.folklife.uk  and Folklife Traditions Journal pages are on www.folklife-traditions.uk 

🄵 FOLKLIFE's ZOOM LIST    www.folklife-traditions.uk/zoom.html
→    Mostly UK zooms, + above
⊕    "Venues Zoom" webpage


‡ FATEA   www.fatea-records.co.uk
⇒ https://twitter.com/Fatea_Magazine, https://en-gb.facebook.com/FateaMagazine,    info[at]fatea.co.uk
     
FATEA, PO Box 2218, Parkstone, Poole, BH17 7ZZ.  
     Review material: to above address & electronic copy of sleeve to 
reviews[at]fatea.co.uk
⊕ News & Features, keeping you up to date; Reviews, detailed thoughts on albums, singles, EPs, the odd book and DVD; Live Gig & Festival reviews;
    Shop, support Fatea and help Fatea support live events by visiting the shop. [Dec 2022, new listing]

UK & Ireland
🄵 ​LIVING TRADITION    www.livingtradition.co.uk    Office        01563 571220
    ⇒    The Living Tradition, PO Box 1026, Kilmarnock KA2 0LG.  admin<at>livingtradition.co.uk,  www.facebook.com/thelivingtraditionmagazine
    ⊕     The Living Tradition magazine’s website, featuring articles from the trad/folk magazine, festival, club and concert listings, news, reviews and regional links.  There is also an online shop where you can buy many folk and traditional CDs   [Feb 2018, new member]
MEDIA   M.3    ONLINE FOLK MAGAZINES & LISTINGS --- CYMRU / WALES

Generally national, covering all of Wales, unless otherwise stated

(!) ​ National    ..................          ALAWON CYMRU, monthly sets of Welsh tunes & archive going back to 2012  www.alawoncymru.com    Meurig Williams 02920 628300 (added March 2019)

🄵 ​National    ..................         BYWYD GWERIN, our bilingual Welsh-language folklife traditions site     www.bywyd-gwerin.cymru    Sam Simmons    01684 561378
            ⊕    
​A website for Welsh Traditions. A work in progress as we change this from a more general folk site.
 Nid yw’r golygyddion yn siaradwyr Cymraeg rhugl, rydym yn croesawu gwirfoddolwyr i’n helpu i gyfieithu rhestriadau, penawdau ac ati. (Hydref​ 2022)
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🄵 ​North Wales, & Merseyside/Cheshire  CALENDAR: OPEN MIKE, FOLK & ACOUSTIC EVENTS  http://ruthinallstyles.co.uk, then click ‘Other local clubs’
⇒   Chris Birchall, 01824 704844, chris<at>chrisbirchall.co.uk
            ⊕    Other categories also eg theatres. You can add your event, and request a review. 


🄵 ​South Wales                 CASBAR, website folk related listings & contacts in South Wales    www.casbar.co.uk     Cas Smith
⇒   cas<at>casbar.co.uk
            ⊕     Updated regularly and the list is emailed out to people who have requested to join the list, cas<at>casbar.co.uk


🄵 ​National    ..................       FOLKWALES online magazine       www.folk.wales/magazine    Mick Tems, Editor    01443 201634
⇒ 7, Crawford Close, Y Beddau, Pontypridd CF38 2SD, Cymru / Wales        micktems<at>folkwales.org.uk
​              ⊕  Internet magazine (not for profit).  News, views, reviews, features, articles and comment, focussing on Wales and the World.  Includes the Listings, the all-Wales diary of folk events. 


(!) ​ National    ..................       SESIWN.COM, classes, sessions and tune clubs across Wales   www.sesiwn.com    Meurig Williams     02920 628300  [Nov 2018, new member]
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🄵 ​​National    ..................       trac Music Traditions Wales/Traddodiadau Cerdd Cymru       https://trac.cymru     Blanche Rowen     01446 748 556
⇒   
trac<at>trac-cymru.org
       ⊕  Wales’ Folk Development organisation; its rôle to promote and develop the music and dance traditions of Wales - both within Wales and beyond. trac provides an information service, and the website lists performers, events and contacts.  [2017 Jan, updated with these new contact details]
MEDIA   M.4    ONLINE FOLK MAGAZINES & LISTINGS --- ENGLAND


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WEST COUNTRY

​Cornwall  
 🄵 ​FOLK IN CORNWALL    www.folkincornwall.co.uk    John Tremaine    01208 872124
    ⇒     Editor: John Tremaine, 7 The Moors, Lostwithiel, PL22 0BX.      mail<at>folkincornwall.co.uk
            Facebook: www.facebook.com/folkincornwallmagazine
    ⊕    Song, music and dance clubs, groups, sessions, with Google maps. Event diary. Details of regular weekly or monthly events. View and download pdf versions of all issues of the magazine. Links to local and national folk information websites.   


​Cornwall  🄵 ​WHEAL ALICE MUSIC   www.whealalice.com         David Harley  01736 740337
⇒ St. Ives, Cornwall.       david.a.harley<at>gmail.com     
Facebook: www.facebook.com/WhealAlice/
Combines the folk-oriented music of David Harley with writing about musical techniques and history, music reviews, and information on Cornish events and resources. [30 October 2020]


Glos & nearby; includes South Glos 🄵 ​GLOSFOLK   www.glosfolk.org.uk      Peter Cripps 
    ⊕    The Folk Diary of events (www.glosfolk.org.uk) is well worth a visit to keep up with what is going on in the county and nearby, with over 200 events listed most months (and those are just the ones we know about!). 

Somerset and Dorset   
🄵 ​SOMERSET AND DORSET FOLK DIARY    www.sadfolk.co.uk      Steve Cunio
⇒  Subscribe or email via website.
            ⊕    The Somerset and Dorset Folk Diary (or SaDFolk) is based around a weekly email service, listing ‘folk’ events in Somerset and Dorset.
                The term ‘event’ covers concerts, barn dances, sessions, workshops and any other folk related activity.


West Country & West Mids    🄵 ​MR RED’s MID WEST listings      www.cresby.com   Cresby Brown  
→  ​Mr Red’s website gives regional listings, for the ‘Mid-West’, by day and by county.   

West Country & West Mids    🄵 ​ARMANDALEG MUSIC    www.armandalegmusic.com    Mike Weaver 
→     West Country: Bath, Bristol, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire.  Midlands: Herefordshire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire,  and Worcestershire.
⇒      Contact via website.  twitter <at>armandalegmusic
⊕    Independent organisation, helping original acoustic and traditional artists to promote their music. Listen online to live music, find out what’s on in the Mid-West, get the latest news, view comprehensive list of Mid-West venues and of folk and acoustic festivals. 


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🄵 ​MR RED’s MID WEST listings  and 🄵 ​ARMANDALEG MUSIC  see under WEST COUNTRY as cover West Country & West Mids
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Shropshire & elsewhere  
🄵 ​SABRINAFLU Facebook Group   https://www.facebook.com/groups/27261137852/   David Harley   07891 999619
⇒  Contact: david.a.harley<at>gmail.com.        
​    ⊕    Promoting folk(-ish) music, song, dance and poetry, especially but not exclusively along the course of the river Severn (hence Sabrinaflu).


Herefordshire  🄵 ​TALES FROM UNDER BLACK HILL BLOG     http://blackhilltales.blogspot.com/search/label/FolkWorkshops John & Jane Baxter
⇒      e-mail john.baxter87<at>virgin.net or follow & DM <at>FolkWorkshops         
            ⊕    Blog including FolkWorkshop newsletters and other articles about folk music in South-West Herefordshire and nearby parts of Powys

Worcestershire & very nearby  
🄵 ​WORCESTER Traditional Music Page​    www.worcesterfolk.org.uk    Mike Walton    01905 357482
⇒       mike<at>worcesterfolk.org.uk
            ⊕    Website with information on Worcester’s traditional music scene.

Warks, Coventry, +   
🄵 ​  FOLKFAX           www.folkfax.net    Malc Gurnham     024 7634 5568
⇒      Malc Gurnham, Tel: as above, Mob: 077 6019 0309. Email: mail<at>bedworthfolkclub.co.uk

Warks & nearby 
   🄵 ​COTSWOLD FOLK listings  www.cotswoldfolk.co.uk    Paul Bryan     07711 121210  

Warks & nearby ​   
🄵 ​​SHIFTING SUNDAY SESSIONS listings     www.sessionfolk.blogspot.com    Paul Bryan     07711 121210  


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SOUTH-EAST & LONDON

London & Home Counties  🄵  FOLK LONDON  https://folklondon.co.uk/
⇒  www.instagram.com/folklondonmag/; https://twitter.com/FolkLondonMag
⊕ Bi-monthly listings magazine covering folk music, dance and song events in London & home counties [updated 14/3/2023]

Oxon  (?) FOLK IN OXFORD    http://folkinoxford.co.uk
⇒   Contact us - admin<at>folkinoxford.co.uk  Mailing list for all the latest news, subscribe via website form.
⊕    Calendar of events (by category, by week, searchable); listing a huge variety of folk activities to watch, or to join in.  NO RECENT CONTACT, TBC
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NORTH-WEST

Merseyside & Cheshire  [from Cymru/Wales listings;  this site covers North Wales, & Merseyside/Cheshire]
🄵 ​CALENDAR: OPEN MIKE, FOLK & ACOUSTIC EVENTS    http://ruthinallstyles.co.uk, then click ‘Other local clubs’
⇒   Chris Birchall, 01824 704844, chris<at>chrisbirchall.co.uk
            ⊕    Other categories also eg theatres. You can add your event.

MEDIA   M.5    ONLINE FOLK MAGAZINES & LISTINGS --- Alba•Scotland

entries welcome
MEDIA   M.6    ONLINE FOLK MAGAZINES & LISTINGS --- INTERNATIONAL
   Note:  this is a Directory summary, so word limits: symbol ⊕ = up-to-40 words additional info. 
             More detailed entries on our International News page on our folklife.uk folk-news website:  www.folklife.uk/world.html


Ireland

(?)   FONN TRADITIONAL MUSIC & SONG   https://fonn.online
→  
Primarily, but not excusively, from Ireland.    
⊕    The fonn website covers traditional music and song --   fonn is an online magazine devoted to traditional music and song – primarily, but not excusively, from Ireland.  The magazine includes news, reviews and essays along with images and videos.

USA  

(?)  CALENDAR of VIRTUAL SONG SESSIONS    bostonsongsessions.org​/virtual-sessions  
→   An invaluable resource for USA, UK, & more  (as pictured above) 

⇒    Please send corrections, additions, and suggestions to:  virtualtradsession <at> gmail.com  It's maintained jointly by Clara Jordan (Sheffield, UK) & Jeff Keller (Somerville, MA, USA). For individual session queries, contact that session.
⊕      A calendar of online (mostly zoom-based) pub sings, chantey sings, & ballad sessions started up under the Coronavirus lockdown. 
    Unless your browser is confused, times should display in your timezone. Note that some of the sessions require registering in advance. 

ØØ   COUNTRY DANCE & SONG SOCIETY'S ONLINE EVENTS CALENDAR https://www.cdss.org/community/events-calendar
→   CDSS, mainly USA and Canada 
⊕    
Check out CDSS's online events calendar Dozens of virtual events posted every week for traditional singers, musicians, and also dancers. Most are hosted by Americans & Canadians, some by others, but anyone can join.

ØØ ​  SOME ALTERNATIVE ROOTS: DIARY, LISTINGS, AND MORE      www.somealternativeroots.com
 →   Resources: USA and world
⊕          Resources website, with webpages ‘Listen’, ‘Watch’. ‘Support’, ‘Participate’, ‘Learn’.
The ‘Participate’ webpage includes virtual events: 
www.somealternativeroots.com/participate
and is a gateway to more pages, including virtual ‘Dance’, ‘Play’, ‘Sing’, “Festivals’, ‘Concert Calendar’.


ØØ    AMERICELTIC    www.AmeriCeltic.net / www.facebook.com/AmeriCeltic 
→    West Coast of U.S. and more.

⇒    Public Calendar of related events: AmeriCeltic Calendar  Weekly newsletter: AmeriCeltic Newsletter
       Read about all our work,: www.AmeriCeltic.net/about
       A weekly newsletter needs NEWS!  Please submit your relevant news to americeltic<at>gmail.com.​
⊕    A user supported, non-profit service organization. Our Mission is to restore awareness, celebrate and preserve the culture and history of Celtic Americans by promoting live Celtic music, festivals, history & ancestry as well as report and comment on related current events. 
         

ØØ  AMERICELTIC CALENDAR  AmeriCeltic Calendar  
→   West Coast of U.S. and more.  Live and Zoom listings 

⇒   Read about all our work, www.AmeriCeltic.net/about
⊕   ⊕    A user supported, non-profit service organization. Our Mission is to restore awareness, celebrate and preserve the culture and history of Celtic Americans by promoting live Celtic music, festivals, history & ancestry as well as report and comment on related current events.

​MEDIA   M.7    FOLK RADIO

(?) ​Wales: National    CELTIC HEARTBEAT (BBC Radio Wales)    www.bbc.co.uk/radiowales    Frank Hennessy 
⇒   Email: frank.hennessy<at>bbc.co.uk   Post: Celtic Heartbeat, BBC Radio Wales, Cardiff CF5 2YQ
⊕   Sunday, 7pm. The best in traditional and contemporary folk groups and acoustic music, plus Frank Hennessy’s weekly Celtic gig guide.   [New member, added September 2017]


🄵 ​​Warkwickshire   ANKER FOLK    www.ankerradio.co.uk     Geoff Veasey, Presenter 
⇒    folk@ankerradio.co.uk.  Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/ankerradio/playlists/anker-folk
⊕    1st and 3rd Wednesdays monthly on Hospicoms, on 1286am and online via station website. Presenters: John Goodman & Geoff Veasey.
For the three most recent broadcasts, www.ankerradio.co.uk   then click on the FOLK button.   [New member, Apr 2018]

​MEDIA    M.8    PUBLISHERS (MUSIC & PRINT)
     
see also FOLKLIFE STUDIES (on our Folklife Traditions site)

🄵 ​S Glos  SAYDISC  www.saydisc.com    Gef Lucena   
⌂  The Barton, Inglestone Common, Badminton, S. Glos. GL9 1BX, England    Saydisc<at>aol.com 
⊕   Maddy Prior/Carnival Band, Mellstock Band, Broadside Band, Kathryn Tickell, Nigel Eaton, Ray Fisher, Chinese, Japanese, Pacific, African, Indian and many other cultures, trad performers and rare musics.

🄵 ​​Herefs   TOM HUGHES        www.tomhughesmusic.co.uk           Tom Hughes
⇒  Contact: tomhughesmusic<at>outlook.com  
⊕  Music transcription and engraving service, including music book production and publishing of folk/traditional music. I can offer special rates to folk musicians looking to release a music book. Now available: ALAWON:MELODIES Tune Book from the fantastic Welsh folk trio ALAW. [Feb 2020, new Member] 
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